/fa/ - Fashion

>>7870397
I know it seems like it has enjoyed success, and due to the relative ubiquity of the brand in internet circles, it seems hard to fathom, but for a period of time around the brand's conception, the only western attention for the brand could be almost directly attributed to superfuture, more accurately to djraijo
i guess the point about sz following the buyers was truest at the beginning - the site's aesthetic was highly influenced the Atelier style, and as the style grew from relatively skinny and severe to more flowing and refined, there was a change in the site's style as well, insofar as i can gather. perhaps it was more a correlationary thing due to the changes in consumer tastes, but due to how often faust praised Atelier and how intertwined it was with the site & its history at the time, i don't think it's 2 farfetched
will acquiese the point about praising specific designers, especially the continues family: interest in which seems to have tapered off sadly :(
you are wrong about paul harnden though
he may have an "industry sucks" attitude and a relatively substience-based business model, but he is definitely part of the fashion landscape - for the longest time, before l'eclaireur picked him i think and brought him to the larger world, the majority, if not almost all, the buyers of his work were fashion industry people he maintained a relationship with - galliano was a much publicized example, but also rei kawakubo - rei actually had paul make shoes for CdG for a period in time, and he is still stocked at Dover Street Market locations worldwide. honestly i find the anti-fashion rhetoric of paul and yohji a bit tiring, - yohji moreso, simply because of how deeply involved he is with the fashion system.
i definitely agree with you on the other point, the way in which faust and a select few of the sz elite (mike nouveau) began warming up to and expressing praise for harnden and the way in which interest exploded for him on sz is extremely transparent.